Liverpool vs Wolves

2023 - 1 - 7

FA CUP DRAW

VAR Review: Explaining the offside drama in Liverpool vs. Wolves (ESPN)

Liverpool and Wolverhampton Wanderers played out a 2-2 draw in the third round of the FA Cup at Anfield. This is what happened with VAR.

[Liverpool](/soccer/team?id=364) took the lead in the 52nd minute when he [Cody Gakpo](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/249524/Cody-Gakpo) tried to find [Mohamed Salah](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/173896/Mohamed-Salah) with a ball over the top. Dean decided not to intervene in the on-field decision to allow the goal. There is no doubt Salah is in an offside position, but if the officials judge Toti's actions to be a "deliberate play", Salah cannot be penalised or offside. There are many factors which are taken into account, and an attempted header is judged more in favour of the defender than a kick. The VAR, Mike Dean, had to go with the decision of the assistant because there were no definitive calibrated camera angles to show the position of Nunes and the last defender when Hwang heads the ball. [Liverpool](/soccer/team?id=364) and [Wolverhampton Wanderers](/soccer/team?id=380) played out a 2-2 draw in the third round of the FA Cup at Anfield, but there were two controversial offside decisions.

'We are unlucky': Julen Lopetegui left to rue VAR controversy in FA ... (The Independent)

Toti thought he had scored the winner, only for the visitors' wild celebrations to be cut short by an offside flag.

“We deserve not more than a draw. I have seen the replay.” We have talked with the referee.

Match of the Day pundits demand rule change after Liverpool vs ... (Birmingham Live)

Latest Wolverhampton Wanderers news from BirminghamLive as Match of the Day pundit slam offside calls in the club's FA Cup draw with Liverpool.

“The laws of the game say that (Salah’s) goal should stand but for a football fan, this shouldn’t stand. “Toti does the right thing, he tries to deal with the situation but (Salah’s) offside. "They don’t adhere to that rule every week (in the Premier League),” Murphy said. The rule shouldn’t even be there to be wrongly interpreted!” Salah’s equalising goal correctly stood, according to the current offside laws. The technology is there, we see it every week. [comments section…](https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/wolves-liverpool-motd-offside-decisions-25923350#comments-wrapper) Speaking about the freak occurrence that saw Toti’s winner ruled out for Wolves, Stephen Warnock said: “This is really difficult and really frustrating for all football fans. It’s not foolproof, it doesn’t always work.” It’s a bad decision.” Hwang Hee-chan put Julen Lopetegui’s side back on level terms but wolves were cruelly denied the win after Toti’s supposed winner, 10 minutes from time, was ruled offside by the officials due to Matheus Nunes’ positioning. We looked at this so many times.

'That's a pity': Cody Gakpo now shares what went wrong for ... (Rousing the Kop)

New Liverpool signing Cody Gakpo has now shared what went wrong for the Reds as they were held to a draw against Wolverhampton Wanderers in the FA Cup last ...

As a team, a lot was left to be desired. I think we showed real team spirit at moments, so that’s good. [Hwang Hee-chan equalising in the 66th minute.](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64168002)

FA Cup: New camera angle shows Wolves goal vs Liverpool should ... (Metro)

Fan footage from Anfield appears to suggest Wolves' late disallowed goal against Liverpool in the FA Cup third round should have stood.

It is a pity, because I’m sorry, it’s not offside.’ The decision is wrong. ‘Someone has told him [the referee] it’s offside, but we’ve seen the images, it doesn’t exist. [check our sport page](https://metro.co.uk/sport/). [Cody Gakpo](https://metro.co.uk/tag/cody-gakpo/?ico=auto_link_sport_P4_LNK1) tried to clip the ball over the top for an offside [Mohamed Salah](https://metro.co.uk/tag/mohamed-salah/?ico=auto_link_sport_P4_LNK2); Wolves defender Toti made a failed attempt to clear the ball, with the ball landing at the Egyptian who slotted home. [Darwin Nunez](https://metro.co.uk/tag/darwin-nunez/?ico=auto_link_sport_P3_LNK1) levelled the scores on the stroke of half-time with a brilliant volleyed finish.

New angle emerges of controversial Wolves disallowed goal against ... (Liverpool Echo)

Video footage has emerged from the crowd at Anfield showing Liverpool may have been lucky not to lose their FA Cup clash with Wolves.

Footage taken from the Sir Kenny Dalglish stand has shown Trent Alexander-Arnold appearing to play Toti onside. READ MORE: Toti Gomes appeared to have won it late on, but his [goal was ruled out for offside](https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/wolves-goal-against-liverpool-disallowed-25922562). [ Darwin Nunez](https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/darwin-nunez-ignores-taunts-teach-25921618) levelled the tie.